““The Justice Department said it has deployed election monitors and observers across all 50 states for the first time as voters head to the polls on Election Day. The announcement marks the largest election monitoring effort in the department’s history, with approximately 1,000 personnel deployed.” — Fox News Digital live election coverage, Nov. 3, 2026”

The claim: ““The Justice Department said it has deployed election monitors and observers across all 50 states for the first time as voters head to the polls on Election Day. The announcement marks the largest election monitoring effort in the department’s history, with approximately 1,000 personnel deployed.” — Fox News Digital live election coverage, Nov. 3, 2026”

Why we rated it this way: The Justice Department's Nov. 3 release says it is engaging in “its largest monitoring effort in history—with approximately 1,000 election monitors and observers deployed, and, for the first time, in all 50 states,” and lists the counties and cities it planned to cover. Its Nov. 1, 2024 release announced monitoring in 86 jurisdictions across 27 states, so the expansion is documented. The 1,000 figure and the “largest in history” label come from the department itself and have not been independently counted.

What would change our rating: An independent count, state election-office reports, or a later DOJ statement showing far fewer monitors, or states that refused or received none, would move this to Missing context.